{"id":366,"date":"2009-01-24T23:42:55","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T03:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/24\/review-of-the-joys-of-love-by-madeleine-lengle\/"},"modified":"2009-01-25T00:38:57","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T04:38:57","slug":"review-of-the-joys-of-love-by-madeleine-lengle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=366","title":{"rendered":"Review of The Joys of Love, by Madeleine L’Engle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Joys of Love<\/em><\/p>\n

by Madeleine L’Engle<\/p>\n

Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 2008.\u00a0 255 pages.<\/p>\n

Starred Review.<\/p>\n

Here’s a wonderful discovery — a novel Madeleine L’Engle wrote back before she was appreciated, for which she couldn’t find a publisher.\u00a0 The novel is beautiful, and classic Madeleine L’Engle.\u00a0 I’m so glad her grandchildren decided to share it with the world.<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Jerrold is an apprentice at\u00a0a professional\u00a0Summer Theatre in the 1940s, after the war.\u00a0 She dreams of making it as an actress, despite the way her aunt and guardian despises the theatre, afraid she’ll turn out like her mother.\u00a0 This summer is her chance to get her start, and she’s thrilled to be here.<\/p>\n

She’s also falling in love with Kurt Canitz, the director at the theatre.\u00a0 He’s spending time with her, walking and talking with her.\u00a0 He’s so wise in the ways of the world and the theatre, how can she help but fall in love?<\/p>\n

And then she has so much time with her fellow apprentices, learning and rehearsing and growing as actors and actresses.\u00a0 They get to see the professional, a different one each week, to star in their productions.\u00a0 As apprentices, they learn much from how the different stars act, on stage and off.<\/p>\n

Madeleine L’Engle’s romances are so refreshingly wholesome.\u00a0 I love the way her characters talk earnestly about life and about what’s truly important.\u00a0 This is a romance, but it’s not fluffy silliness.\u00a0 Instead, it’s about what is art, what is vocation, and what is love.<\/p>\n

This is a beautiful and uplifting book.\u00a0 Madeleine L’Engle fans will want to snap it up, one more way for a truly great writer to live on in our hearts.<\/p>\n

Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Joys of Love by Madeleine L’Engle Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 2008.\u00a0 255 pages. Starred Review. Here’s a wonderful discovery — a novel Madeleine L’Engle wrote back before she was appreciated, for which she couldn’t find a publisher.\u00a0 The novel is beautiful, and classic Madeleine L’Engle.\u00a0 I’m so glad her grandchildren decided to share […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,42,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-romance","category-starred-review","category-teen-fiction-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}